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Two members of Penn Democrats, Liberal and Professional Studies student Madison Russ and College freshman Jane Meyer, attended the event. Penn Dems president and College junior Andrew Brown selected the two to attend because of the high amount of hours they logged volunteering with Penn Dems.

Kane spoke first and introduced Clinton, according to Meyer. “[Clinton] starts speaking and there’s a hush over the whole entire room,” Meyer said.

“Everyone’s hanging on to his every word.”

Russ called Clinton “magnetic.”

“The way he controlled the crowd was amazing,” she said.

Both Russ and Meyer remembered particularly the former president’s discussion on voter ID laws. Clinton invoked his upbringing to carry across his point.

“In his childhood he saw segregation and how African Americans weren’t allowed to vote,” Russ said. “It takes him back to that.”

Clinton recalled his memory of when poll taxes were still in place and men were “put on cattle cars and brought to the polling place and coerced into voting for the candidates whom the higher power wanted them to vote for,” Meyer said.